An Illinois man is being hailed as a hero after police say he jumped into a moving car to save a driver who was having a seizure.

According to a post on the Dixon, Illinois, Police Department's Facebook page, an officer began following a blue car on June 2 when he saw the vehicle go through a red light, narrowly missing other vehicles.

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"Our squad car activated its emergency lights in an attempt to conduct a traffic stop on the car. The car proceeded north at a low rate of speed and began traveling into the oncoming lanes of travel," the statement said.

The driver of a black pickup truck had to put his vehicle in reverse to avoid striking the blue vehicle.

"The driver of the truck could see the driver of the car and observed that something looked medically wrong," police said

The driver of the truck, later identified as Randy Tompkins, bolted from his truck, ran up to the car and jumped through the passenger side window in an attempt to stop it, and save the driver, who was later found to be saving a seizure.

"We want to thank Tompkins for his heroism and for coming to a complete stranger's aid," police said on Facebook.